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"First of all, you have to understand that I'm like anybody else. When I hear my voice on a record I absolutely loathe my voice. I cannot stand my voice."

"After the first exams, I switched to the Faculty of Philosophy and studied Zoology in Munich and Vienna."

"My first encounter with a Kelly was not on a musical scale. It was from primary school. Dave and I went to primary school together and we were like boy scouts."

"When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s."

"It is of first-class importance that our answer to the Riddle of the Sphinx should be in step with how we conduct our civilisation, and this should in turn be in step with the actual workings of living systems."
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"I really thought I was pretty good before I saw Hendrix, and then I thought: Yeah, not so good."

"For a time I didn't want to answer any questions about Queen. I'd like to be viewed as something alive and relevant, not some fossil."

"I spent 20 years of my life building up Queen, and now I'm spending years of my life trying to get away from it."

"Every time I listen to Jeff Beck my whole view of guitar changes radically. He's way, way out, doing things you never expect."

"I like to go for a walk or swimming or in the garden when I can. It's a busy kind of life, but I guess I'm lucky."

"I go through major crises every few months, but then I have great peaks of belief and creativity. I'm a weird kind of animal."
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